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Enkidukai houses
« on: July 09, 2006, 12:31:59 pm »
Lately I noticed that people know about different Enki houses/subvariants. I couldn't find any information about that in the "races" section of the manual ...soooooo, I'm wondering where can I inform myself more about it. My char's a menki and it'd be high time to decide where he comes from, I think.

p.s. I hope words like "menki" and "fenki" would stop to be used IC ...for me it spoils a bit the role-playing  :(
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Re: Enkidukai houses
« Reply #1 on: July 09, 2006, 12:45:25 pm »
The library of Jayose holds a book that talks about Ojaveda, IIRC.

There's a little description about Utlics in there, the tents that some enkidukais use.
Give that book a look. (And the rest of them too :P)
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Re: Enkidukai houses
« Reply #2 on: July 09, 2006, 01:48:22 pm »
Thanks, I will.

I already learned a few things (also about swamps) in Jayose's library ...didn't notice the books on Enkidukai though.
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Re: Enkidukai houses
« Reply #3 on: July 09, 2006, 03:02:40 pm »
Personally, I think that "menki" and "fenki" are fine words for RPing. After all, we don't say "male human" or "female human" all the time. It adds a bit of Yliakum-exclusive slang, which is exactly the sort of thing we need. (However, this of course presents the problem of why there aren't special words for male and female elves/dwarves/diaboli/ynnwn.)
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Re: Enkidukai houses
« Reply #4 on: July 09, 2006, 04:09:18 pm »
Although I agree with you on the fact that this could have been acceptable if it was Yliakum slang. But I feel that "menki" and "fenki" just sound too artificial to be slang anywhere.

I agree that we don't say "male human" and "female human", but the word therefore are "man" and "woman" (and not "muman" or "fuman").

I could happily live with words that sounded like and Enkidukai would say them (for example, see in game how you are adressed in Akkaio!).
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Re: Enkidukai houses
« Reply #5 on: July 09, 2006, 07:11:00 pm »
Quote from: hook on July 09, 2006, 04:09:18 pm
Although I agree with you on the fact that this could have been acceptable if it was Yliakum slang. But I feel that "menki" and "fenki" just sound too artificial to be slang anywhere..

Slang is artificial......  ::)
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Re: Enkidukai houses
« Reply #6 on: July 09, 2006, 07:31:48 pm »
Quote from: sesmi on July 09, 2006, 07:11:00 pm
Slang is artificial......  ::)

That is right you puny muman!!!  :devil:
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Re: Enkidukai houses
« Reply #7 on: July 09, 2006, 11:39:39 pm »
Ever tried talking about Ojaveda, and architecture to inhabitants of said city?
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Re: Enkidukai houses
« Reply #8 on: July 09, 2006, 11:47:56 pm »
Quote from: Cyl on July 09, 2006, 11:39:39 pm
Ever tried talking about Ojaveda, and architecture to inhabitants of said city?

I did ...I learned a bit about Dsars and so on. I just wondered since it started to seem to me as if the distinguishing of different Enkidukai tribes became common knowledge on the forums. It made me think that slowly I would have to decide which tribe my char comes from - that is really importaint for my char because of his past and ancestors.

I'm happy with the answers I got :)
I just wanted to know where I could find more ...it seemed so common to me already that I thought maybe there's more info online now and I just can't find it.
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Re: Enkidukai houses
« Reply #9 on: July 18, 2006, 08:56:58 pm »
iee ei kinda like saying "my menki" and what not...and my guild is felicitious fenkis so i dunnos i kinda like syaing menki and fenki :D

besides im sure to dont have ot refer to it like that if you dont really want to :D
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Re: Enkidukai houses
« Reply #10 on: July 19, 2006, 05:23:28 am »
Quote from: hook on July 09, 2006, 12:31:59 pm
p.s. I hope words like "menki" and "fenki" would stop to be used IC ...for me it spoils a bit the role-playing  :(

I agree with you there, it sounds more like some sort of "MSN" or other chat program language.

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besides im sure to dont have ot refer to it like that if you dont really want to

That is a solution... yet it still spoils it somewhat.
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Re: Enkidukai houses
« Reply #11 on: July 19, 2006, 06:00:07 am »
The character I play is a male Enkidukai and it is perfectly IC to use the affectionate contractions of "menki" and "fenki" in conversations. Searching Dictionary.com produced "No entry found for menki." and "No entry found for fenki." -so there is no OOC context for "menki" and "fenki" in the Real Life world that would be unknown to my character.

As for Enkidukai -or any other race- characters not to use slang terms in IC? Well, there is at least one NPC in Ojaveda who addresses me as "Tabbei" when I say "Hello" to them. Maybe that is because my character is an Enkidukai.

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Re: Enkidukai houses
« Reply #12 on: July 19, 2006, 10:57:50 am »
"Tabbei" isn't slang - it's a word in the Enkidukai tongue.
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Re: Enkidukai houses
« Reply #13 on: July 19, 2006, 07:31:10 pm »
1. Tabei has one b.

2. Well, maybe "menki" and "fenki" are also Enkidukai words. You never know.
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Re: Enkidukai houses
« Reply #14 on: July 19, 2006, 11:42:40 pm »
*Seeln thinks hard to start calling other player "mumans", "fynwins", "mdias", etc.


...makes you wish to be a Kran, eh?  ::|
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